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Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.
George MacDonald
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George MacDonald
Age: 80 †
Born: 1824
Born: December 10
Died: 1905
Died: September 18
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O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy father's son, 'Tis something not yet from the darkness won. Oh, give me light to live with open eyes. Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.
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Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
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He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.
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Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.
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The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law it is fully come when God's will is our will.
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And in thy own sermon, thou That the sparrow falls dost allow, It shall not cause me any alarm For neither so comes the bird to harm, Seeing our Father, thou hast said, Is by the sparrow's dying bed Therefore it is a blessed place, And the sparrow in high grace.
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If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.
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A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.
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Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.
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The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.
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